Metal roofing-tile.



. PATENTED ov. 10,1903.

, A. H. MEMMLER. METAL ROOFING TILE.

v APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

ITS. 743,905.

UNITED STATES Patented November 10, 1903.

PATENT A OFFICE.

METAL ROOFING-TILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 743,905, dated November 10, 1 903.

' Application filed June 30, 1902. Serial No. 113,841. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern:

Belt known that I, ARTHUR H. ME MLER, a citizen of. the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Metal Roofing-Tile, of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to provide a superior sheet-metal roofing-tile which will have the following advantages over roofing tiles heretofore known-viz. first, adaptation to what is known as the mission style of architecture,having the bold relief ofsuch style;

with the ordinary cornice makers brake and crimper.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure I is an isometric view of a numbe of tiles as laid on a pitched roof. Fig. II is an enlarged fragmental detail of the ends of two of my newly-improved tiles interlocking. Fig. III is a broken plan of a tile embodying my invention. Fig. IV is a view of a blank from which the same is formed. Fig. V is an elevation of the large end of the tile shown in Fig. III. Fig. VI is a broken axial section on line VI VI of Fig. III. Fig. VII is an enlarged fragmental sectional detail of the upper end of the tile.

Each title may comprise a sheet-metal tapering body 1 and wings 2 and 3 at the sides thereof, respectively furnished with longi-' tudinal Vs 4 and 5, which extend parallel with the axis of the body.

6 is a relief-crimp at the large end of the body to rest upon the smaller portion-7 of the body of alike tile upon which the described tile is to rest in the roof, as shown in Fig I.

Sdesi nates transverse swages at the end of the ti 6 toward which the body tapers to serve the double purpose of strengthening the tile and also to preventleakage from driving rains. The extreme upper end of the tile is also furnished with a mashed lock 9,.

The wings may have outside their Vs flanges, as Ct and b, respectively, the one to enter the loop 4 and the other to rest upon the sheathing and to receive the nails which fasten the tile to the sheathing.

c designates holes through which the nails (I may be driven to fasten the tiles in place. In practice it is desirable to lay the roof from left to right, and for that reason the wing 2, having the loop 4,'is desirably at the right side of the tile when the large end of the body is toward the workman. The wing at the gable end of the roof may be trimmed 06 by the workmen or left ed in the manufacture, and the workmen may solder that edge to the cornice and the .tiers may be laid from left to right, beginning along the caves in the ordinary manner, the left wing 3 of a tile at the right being inserted into the loop 4 of the laid tile after the wing 2 thereof has been nailed to-the roof, and so continuing along the tier.

The large end of the starter or cave tile may be closed by a sheet-metal closer 10, sol dered inside the crimp 6, which is desirably tapering outward, as shown, in order to secure the. bold relief in a practical form of construction, which can be made in a common cornicc-makers shop.

Desirably the body 1 is in the form of onehalf the frustum of a cone and tapers approximately from'end to end, and the wing 2 on one side of the body comprises a flat inward bend or loop 4 and extends outward to lie fiat upon the roof-sheathing (not shown) and is provided with the longitudinally-extending V 5. The otherwing 3 extends immediately outward from the base of the body and is provided with the longitudinally-extending V 6 to rest on the V 5 and terminates in a flat member 7, which fits into the loop 4,- so that the operation of laying the tile may be performed with a minimum loss of time in placing the tile in position and forming the look. When the nails 01 are driven, the two tilesare firmly'locked in place. A

In'Fig. IV a blank 6 is shown, from which the tile may be formed with the ordinary coruice-makers brake and crimper. The dotted lines indicate the lines along which the bend- Having described my invention, what I In testimony whereof I have signed my claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent name to this specification, in the presence of of the United States, 'is two subscribing witnesses, at Los Angeles, in

A sheet-metal taper body, a wing'at one the county of Los Angeles and State of Cali- 5 side of said body furnished with a V that exfornia, this 24th day of June, 1902.

tends parallel with the axis of the body, and a wing on the other side of the body having ARTHUR MEMMLER' an inward bend extending beneath the body, Witnesses: and also having a V which extends parallel JAMES R. TOWNSEND, 10 with said axis. W. S. BOYD. 

